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Identity and Person: Locke on Personal Identity

Correia CJ*
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ISSN: 2641-9130  10.23880/phij-16000255  Received: June 07, 2022  Published: June 30, 2022
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Locke Reid Consciousness Memory Personal identity
Abstract

We sustain in this essay, that the criterion of personal identity for Locke is not memory but consciousness. Therefore, for Locke, memory is the power of knowledge of the same consciousness.

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  title   = {Identity and Person: Locke on Personal Identity},
  author  = {Correia CJ},
  journal = {Philosophy International Journal},
  year    = {2022},
  volume  = {5},
  number  = {2},
  doi     = {10.23880/phij-16000255}
}
Correia CJ (2022). Identity and Person: Locke on Personal Identity. Philosophy International Journal, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.23880/phij-16000255
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